Theyjustreleased anewversionoftheirflagshipoperatingsystem, RHEL 5.3 (RedHatEnterpriseLinux), and, unlikeSunorMicrosoft, they have new customerscoming in.
Those overruns are partly to blame for leaving Mars exploration short of the multibillion-dollar commitment needed for another "flagship" mission of the scale it would take to fetch rocks and soil from the Red Planet and bring them home.